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Salvation
04:15
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Rainy daydreaming take me away a thousand miles
And 3 months and 10 days so I can see the sunny skies
Where all my tomorrows will be a part of our yesterdays
This day I promise that I will find another way
I’ll do all I can To be a lucky man
When the moon is high and the stars are bright
If hope is a crime then lock me up tonight
And throw away the key
Well there’s room inside my cell tonight
I need an alibi
To free me from this burden
This lonesome sleepless burden
Cos Everybody needs salvation
But everybody wants it now
As I stand here on the outside
Everybody show me how
Far off a tune’s played honky-tonking out of key
For how long was it our song
I’m crying at the memory
But they’re tears of joy, I’m a lucky boy
When the moon is high and the stars are bright
If hope is a crime then lock me up tonight
And throw away the key
Well there’s room inside my cell tonight
I need an alibi
To free me from this burden
This lonesome sleepless burden
Cos Everybody needs salvation
But everybody wants it now
As I stand here on the outside
Everybody show me how
Well there’s room inside my cell tonight
I need an alibi
To free me from this burden
This lonesome sleepless burden
I feel the sun around the corner
Yeah a new day is dawning
Cos everybody needs salvation
But everybody wants it now
As I stand here on the outside
Everybody show me how
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Your Love
04:53
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Shooting Star
03:44
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Step by step we complicate
Find more reasons to love than hate
But feel no malice in the parts we played
Let’s be honest and say
We’re tired of all the battles
Tired of the fights
Let’s run from the darkness
Run into the light
Every time I see you
I see a shooting star
And every time you touch me
We burn bright
So why does it tear us apart
Endless ends and hopes renewed
All I believed in’s alive just bruised
We’re tired of all the battles
Tired of the fights
Let’s run from the darkness
Run into the light
Every time I see you
I see a shooting star
And every time you touch me
We burn bright
But why does it tear us apart
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My Saving Grace
04:03
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As the dust it settles down
As they gather, the gawping crowd
I will sit at peace and wait
By Saint Peter’s gate
For the lovers that I have known
for the feelings that I’ve not shown
Wish I’d shown them all to you
How I wish you knew
That time passes slowly
As you dance in the street
It waits for nobody
Won’t you wait and see
And I saw you in the mirror
You were my lucky charm
And I saw you in the windows
And in the headlights of the cars
And you kept me falling forwards
Kept me feeling safe
You’re my saving grace
For the moments I dared to dream
For the moments I breathed you in
I wish I’d dreamed them perfectly
Oh I hope you see
That time passes slowly
As you dance in the street
It waits for nobody
Won’t you wait and see
And I saw you in the mirror
You were my lucky charm
And I saw you in the windows
And in the headlights of the cars
And you kept me falling forwards
Kept me feeling safe
You’re my saving grace
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When life don’t seem fair
and all your cares
bring you to your knees
When all feels wrong
the joy is gone
and you’re out at sea
Let me hear you
let me hear you
let me hear you say
let me see you
let me see you
let me see you today
Let the sunshine in to warm you
Feel the love that’s out there for you
Kick back take off your well worn shoes
I’ll show you round the city
Tonight it looks so pretty
Tonight it was made for you
I can make it happen
Tell me what you have to lose
Well we've another day
we could while away
these city hours
Just you, you & I
we could kill some time
time that ours
Let me hear you
let me hear you
let me hear you say
let me see you
let me see you
let me see you today
Let the sunshine in to warm you
Feel the love that’s out there for you
Kick back take off your well worn shoes
I’ll show you round the city
Tonight it looks so pretty
Tonight it was made for you
I can make it happen
Tell me what you have to lose
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Until The Sky Bends Down
04:16
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I remember when you ran through
a field of sunflowers in bloom.
I remember your arms open
Wide like wings.
Overhead the sun was shining
and the clear sky was blue
it seemed to be asking
you and I to fly.
So let us go flying,
into the unknown soaring,
and if we come down crashing
into the sea
I will wrap my wings around you
I will raise them like a sail
until the sky bends down to ask us
to fly again.
I see you now running through
the field of sunflowers in bloom.
I see your arms open
Wide like wings.
So let us go flying,
into the unknown soaring,
and if we come down crashing
into the sea
I will wrap my wings around you
I will raise them like a sail
until the sky bends down to ask us
to fly again.
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Where Does The Magic Go
03:02
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I tried to do right by you
I did it all wrong
Made light of our story
Now I’m all alone
Where does the magic go?
Go easy go easy on me
Go easy go easy on me
I woke from the dream
Now I wished I could sleep
I’m out in the cold
How I long for your heat
Where does the magic go?
Go easy go easy on me
Go easy go easy on me
Go easy go easy on me
Go easy go easy on me
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Carolina
03:19
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Out of nowhere
Like you fell from the sky
So out of nowhere I had no time to hide
I was looking for something
Whilst gazing at the floor
If I'd been looking for someone
Would I have put up my protective wall
Carolina, Carolina
Where do you go
Where do you go
When the world turns blue
Can I come with you?
You were skinny as a model
With your jeans hanging down
Shooting star gazing
In some strange southern town
It was on the bridge at midnight
When I held up my hands
There was something about you
Made me cross the line in the sand
Carolina, Carolina
Where do you go
Where do you go
When the world turns blue
Can I come with you?
Carolina, Carolina
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Lay Down Beside Me
02:49
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Don’t scratch the surface
Go dig deep
There are stories buried here I keep
Covered over under dusty sheets
In the attic
Where my skeletons hide
Most of the time
Stowed away out of sight and mind
When you’re away and the moon is high
I can hear them rattling
Won’t you lay down beside me
And we’ll float down stream
I’m so tired of swimming
Won’t you come on in
Won’t you come on in
I remember it well
A Berlin hotel
A darkened doorway but I don’t kiss and tell
I was moving to the rhythm of the tolling bell
You gave me syncopation
I was yours to discover
Yours to bleed
I found a place I never want to leave
And I don’t need the things that I thought I’d need
When I was without you
Won’t you lay down beside me
And we’ll float down stream
Where the water is calmer
and the air is clean
Won’t you lay down beside me
And we’ll float down stream
I’m so tired of swimming
Won’t you come on in
Won’t you come on in
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The Hillside
09:19
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I came down from the hillside
Out of the fog
Walked the length of the valley
To the damp dazzling dock
The harbour lights they shone so bright
Opened up my eyes
The consolation prize
Was a job on a cruise ship
Singing the songs
Of Sinatra & Elvis
The Beatles & Stones
4 months at sea was killing me
jumped off at Greece to play on the beach
And the long terrace bar fronts
And 2 dive bars downtown
4 sets an evening
for 45 pounds
I loved it I loved it it’s gone
I landed in Berlin loaded on speed
Playing Hank Williams music 9 shows a week
Fell in love each night felt the flame burn bright
Got lost inspired was broke but alright
And I loved it I loved it it’s gone
Offered Champagne in London
And drugs for my nose
If I played what they wanted
Did as I was told
Tried to please couldn’t catch their disease
I cut my teeth not my wrists or knees
Going back up the hillside
With my stories and songs
And I’ll sing them all to you
Before I am gone
I love you I love you I’m gone
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